death's nostalgia

decades peeled back against his face
the night sky shimmers in a sweet embrace
the stereo's swagger bursts through the night
a father's moment revealed to son's eyes
the windows rolled down, spring's soft embrace
as the wind swept whistle caressed his face

two separate moments maligned by time
30 years intertwine in family blood diatribes
the stories once lost one has regained
a calmer mood has come to grace

six months book ended by tragic loss
two grandmothers sleep in dirt. six feet underground
just hours ago he watched the dirt pour
upon seventy eight years of love's fine aura

a grounded voice to thine dreaming tongue
the balance now lost, naught for memories spun
in the webs in corners, in annuls of mind
such loving embrace free flowing of time

brisk wind carries heartbeats of a grandfather's tears
the love of his life no longer lies near
a man so stoic now brought to the brink
to existence of true love, his tears do speak.

stardust

Snow white tan
Skin glinting in the daylight shine
His rise to fame chronicled
In downtown neon light
He steps onstage to the roar of the crowd
Unrelenting
Unstoppable
Untouchable
Coked to the sails
Drunk as a sailor
We stood in awe
He wove his tales

Bisexual astronauts
Lost in space
Out of time
With the human race
Major tom made the aliens sing
The legend of the snake
Rang through outer space
"The bitch is back!"
Cried out in delight
As alien eyes
Transmit a sculpted body
Over space wave skies

He conquered their species
One by one
With nothing more than
Self in hand
His home
A distant thought
In far off lands
Rebel to moral laws
Of pristine humankind

His hot tramp,
queen bitch,
He loved her so
Lost hope for earth
Forgotten long ago
Rather lost in love
With eyes so wide
His apex came
Out rang his parting phrase

"Wham, bam, thank you ma'am!"
Major tom forever lost in space
From the ashes
Ziggy was born

psycho killer

In the shadows
Leers the man
With the piercing gaze
His eyes
Light themselves in streetlights
Cold and lifeless
Like his prey

A hunter of highest regard
None would expect
Their life in the hands
Of a man without a voice
Journals carved in pink
Words he could never speak
Written in scarlet red

Business by day
Dapper suits with sleek ties
His true intent
Lost in the interchange
Souls leased to the highest bidder
Apartments sold to avarice

A predator trained
In math and arts
His soft spoken dialect
His soothing asset
He speaks in tongues
Condescending intellect
Trained in spin
He calms your mind
Stop making sense
Dinner grows complacent

Do you have a choice
This beast machine
The house is burning
You're wrapped up in sheets!

His feast is you
Your skin his meat
Feeble screams to him
Are mere drum beats
Part of his sadistic symphony
Pinot Noir and lobster bisque
Innocent trappings post violent sex
Spiders who spun
Webs green and black
To match the ink on your soul's contract

The gaze that pierces through foresight
Notice the trick
Retain your tact
Keep your life
Stay polite
Bloodlust makes blind
As wood floors battle crimson tide
Pray to your highest
For life not lived in vain
Your words your hand
Play hold 'em for your life
Cards close to the chest

nostalgia you can't live by

dip and delve
a future past
times you never lived
ring through your heart
moments you could never feel
preservation
history
life on repeat

if you dive in deep
artifacts of past
create nostalgia
for what you lack

a summer night
nineteen seventy three
all windows down
stereo screams
as four wheels roll
"Rebel, Rebel" David Bowie sings
the joint is passed
the crowd is pleased
the spirit of the seventies
passed down to millennia
dazed and confused
they taught us well
as the wind blows sweetly in my hair
my father's memories blend as one

the salesman

I am a snake oil salesman
Knocking at your door
I peddle personal disaster
For your love and approval
Take me in for just one night
My tragedies make your heart sing
But as the morning sun casts black and white
Shadowed strips flung carelessly across your naked rest
I'll swear to anything above that my warmth will be missed
Some consider it whirlwind romance
I consider myself a breeze
Blowing fast and smooth to calm your mood
Pain once tattoed now twice removed,
pinned proudly to my sleeve.

Some cast me as a schiester,
A pawn of lifs grand scheme
Pledge my heart as true,
Attempts to move you closer to my sheets
My mind uncouth, yet quite refined
Damned what they say,
I've paved my way
To make such trauma known
And set a course to travel west,
To make my story known

Never percieved to be the leader,
Reserved in my dissent
But the kids they sing and weep along,
As the guitar pulcks your heart strings
I hear her shout "come back!"
I think we all feel the same, I guess
But the nights are just so lonely, the fans they have to leave
There is schooling in the morning
Dire attempts to hold control
The big girls stay to party, I guess education falied,
they're just another number, and just another face
In my sleep, I dream, I pray aloud
That the words I sang have struck young minds
If I've gotten through to help your soul
With the feelings once I had withheld,
I've done my part I've lit some spark
The lonely nights seem worth it
For paris looms in agony
she screams to me "come back!"

I wandered across the country in search of my love
But primal instincts
Drive me to style
That some call fuck and love
"You've gotta sink to swim"
Words etched across my chest
Scrawled cursive in my blood
But swimming's just too painful now
I think somedays I'd just rather drown
But if drowning was to fall in love
I'd welcome death in
You are
The yellow bird
That broke Conor's heart and drove him to sing
Don't set me free
Pease keep my feet planted to the ground
So firmly with a home and families
And now my tales they sing of two

My lot in life was travel
I've grown so tired instead
I'll smoke a cigarette in downtown France
We'll swear we're in love
So buy my oils
And hear my tale
And I swear I'll leave my heart
On your nightstand...

Lucy gray
She spoke her name
With an ounce of fear and a hint of shame
She grew up on the banks of prague
Amongst a sea of peasants swimming past
She'd be blessed
For death brought fast
Oh if she only knew her future's cast
Became brittle, broken, cracked!

But on nature's breath she felt at peace, as deer grazed on grass in sweet summer's breeze
She let her heart come flutter free
As she drank from the moan of a dying creek
As the forest stood in awe!

Oh what secrets her mind revealed
From nature's enlightning swath, the meal she picked from forest's floor has sprung her mind free from it's chains
The wool was pulled
The curtains fell
What social fauds she begged repealed
And the forest sang in praise!

She sought like minds to reconnect in the midst of preception's disconnect
Young fawn stepped close and bowed its head
She stroked fine fur in deep regret that she'd never seen like this
And scores would join as her voice rang out,
A beautiful song of love in doubt
As a lost youth overheard

As her song, it rang amongst the trees
I held my heart and wept in fear
For the future of love sat in the wings
And this is what she said

"Love and pain guide two headed hearts
One servant at the gates,
Cut one off and you'll surely fail
But in taming pain love shall prevail
The pains I've hid for 20 years
Love, domesticated, then did reveal
It's shining grace to tear-stained face
And nature sang in tune
The heart is save for a wild beast
But when tamed it did in turn
Shield my soul from pain
Heartbreak sought to nail my coffin
Yet I kicked and screamed and I begged and pleaded
In fighting night's cold damp embrace
I fell in love with nature's grace!
And here I shall stay till the day has come
When love no longer shins my face"

The levees broke against my legs
I ran to her and love was safe
As the woods rejoiced
From the ticket forth blossomed love's true saving face
A rose as sweet as love breathes pure
Not in fear to be plucked, or forced to growth
A nurtured love
Oh we did share
In love's purest form
As the world sat in the dark